Medicine

Thoughts, essays, etc. A blog by Samuel Weisenthal.

• 3/3/2024

  Test characteristics are probabilities!

• 2/25/2024

  The value of interpretability

• 2/18/2024

  Wonderful search engine for rare genetic syndromes

• 11/26/2023

  ChatGPT, reasoning, and medical diagnosis

• 11/12/2023

  PPV and risk calculators

• 10/29/2023

  Utility before probability

• 10/22/2023

  Probability is more intuitive

• 10/1/2023

  Learn the language

• 9/10/2023

  Model biomarkers directly

• 9/6/2023

  Lay abstract for relative sparsity!

• 8/20/2023

  Ideal estimand for a trial

• 7/30/2023

  Bleeding vs. clotting

• 7/16/2023

  The added utility from ordering a test

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  6/20/2023

  Relative sparsity for medical decision problems

• 5/21/2023

  The counterfactual must be recorded

• 5/14/2023

  Responsibilities and protection associated with decision analysis

• 3/19/2023

  Difficulties with decision analysis

• 3/5/2023

  Seven steps to formalizing medical decisions

• 2/26/2023

  Importance sampling, inverse probability weighting, and off-policy reinforcement learning

• 2/12/2023

  Reinforcement learning in medicine